@Echinobase is the twitter account for the echinoderm web information system
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined August 2017
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Bill Klein was a great colleague and a strong supporter of sea urchin research. RIP
teapawt.net/rrbehringer/status/137…
William (Bill) Klein passed away last week. He was the Chair of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Dept @MDAndersonNews . He pioneered studies in gene regulation using sea urchins, & retinal/muscle development in mice. @___SDB___ @the_Node
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Echinobase's Saoirse Foley tells us about efforts to provide orthologies for echinoderm genes @saoirseguita
#BioGenomics20
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Study developmental biology of a Marine Invertebrate?! Submit an abstract and travel award application for this conference in Spring 2020 at MBL in Woods Hole, MA! #DevBio #Invertebrate #DBMIXXVI
"...while coralline cover is greater in urchin-dominated sites (or “barrens”) subject to intense grazing than in kelp-dominated sites with low urchin densities, coralline communities in urchin barrens are significantly less diverse..."
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Fun fact 1. "Echinoderm" is derived from the Ancient Greek for "hedgehog (prickly)-skin".
Fun fact 2. Echinobase is hiring! We need a bioinformatician (bit.ly/2X7dsnu) & a biocurator (bit.ly/2X4ciZB). Come join the echino-team! (We're anything but prickly!)
Just like this baby seastar taking its first steps, Echinobase continues to grow! We're seeking a skilled biocurator to make sense of the heaps of new echinoderm literature, genes and genomes.
Please RT #biocuration
More details and application info: cmu.taleo.net/careersection/…
Echinobase is growing! We're seeking a skilled bioinformatician to assemble, annotate and analyze echinoderm genome and transcriptome sequences and help improve our website. Please RT.
More details and application info here: bit.ly/2X7dsnu
New paper in PNAS from the Ben-Tabou de-Leon lab describing the regulatory similarities in the control and effects of VEGF signaling in vascularization and sea urchin spiculogenesis -- points to an ancestral tubulogenesis program common to both!
pnas.org/content/early/2019/…
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Do you remember when? 25 yrs ago SGD went online, way before going online was cool-we were one of only 2000 websites back then! 1000s of gene pages, 1000s of users, tens of 1000s of papers, 100s of 1000s of annotations, and millions of hits later, we are still #yeast's best bud!
From echinoderm expression patterns to inferred ancestral states -- this paper has it all!
Great work from @Erky321 and @echinerd
Also, 👍👍 for the gif abstract
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Happy to announce our new quantitative transcriptome viewer for sea star embryogenesis.
app: echinobase.org/shiny/quantde…
For more information on the data underpinning the app, please check out the preprint:
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
This work is the result of a collaboration between the @veronica_hinman lab and Smadar Ben Tabou de Leon (U. Haifa)
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Dear colleagues and friends: Vote for our SEA CUCUMBER genome project!!! :-): pacb.com/vote @PacBio #SMRTGrant #GoForScabra @umons @UMONSnews @MauriceElphick @ElphickLab @echinobase @QMUL #scicomm #MarineScience
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Please consider providing your response to NICHD strategic plan, (especially if you value research in basic biology 😉)
The NICHD is making a strategic plan:
Please voice your thoughts on the important role developmental biology plays in the NICHD mission by responding the the "Request For Information" (RFI) ->
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/…
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OK, you have ~4 weeks to prepare your application to the summer @MBLScience Embryology Course. You will need to arrange for at least 2 letters of recommendation and transcripts. @NICHD_NIH @HHMINEWS @BWFUND @___SDB___ @MarchofDimes @the_Node
"Woods Hole" Embryology Course @MBLScience application deadline Feb 1, 2019. Learn, interact, discover, challenge yourself, wonder, test ideas, network with international experts. Opportunity of a lifetime! Apply! Substantial scholarship support. bit.ly/2iN33cT
Asymmetric distribution of hypoxia-inducible factor α regulates dorsoventral axis establishment in the early sea urchin embryo.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2870…
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Eric Davidson had a deep and abiding interest in the role developmental mechanisms played in generating evolutionary patterns .....
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Undergrad Agata Czap, on how to build a sea urchin GRN. teapawt.net/the_Node/status/936189…
Now you can read our seventh report from this year's #BSDB Gurdon Studentships on the Node!
thenode.biologists.com/bsdb-…
